In:The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition
Vyvyan Evans
[Human Cognitive Processing 12] 2004
► pp. v–viii
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Published online: 5 March 2004
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.12.toc
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Table of contents
Acknowledgementsix
I. Orientation
1. The problem of time
2. The phenomenology of time
3. The elaboration of temporal concepts
4. The nature of meaning
5. The conceptual metaphor approach to time
6. A theory of word-meaning: Principled polysemy
II. Concepts for time
7. The Duration Sense
8. The Moment Sense
9. The Instance Sense
10. The Event Sense
11. The Matrix Sense
12. The Agentive Sense
13. The Measurement-system Sense
14. The Commodity Sense
15. The Present, Past and Future
III. Models for time
16. Time, motion and agency
17. Two complex cognitive models of temporality
18. A third complex model of temporality
19. Time in modern physics
20. The structure of time
Notes255
References269
Index277
